this is unofficial english traslation of a document of PCm Italy about last NATO SUMMIT in Poland - the text is in 5 parts- this is the Second Part - in the next days the others parts
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Ukraine
It is the first battleground between NATO, with
distinguished interests inside, and Russian imperialism. The support
to the pro-Nazi regime in Kiev and the open attempt to detach Ukraine
from Russia is the main cause of the civil war and the current
situation in Ukraine.
Russian
imperialism has immediately annexed Crimea for the strategically
significant access to the Black Sea and supported the people’s
opposition anti-Nazi and anti-Western imperialism oriented having his
heart in Donbass. This resistance was the main factor that prevented
the further widening of the conflict and that it results in a new
permanent partition.
But
NATO and Western imperialism, US first, did not loosen its grip and
supported the agreements with Russia only as part of a temporary
truce. The aim of the NATO-US is always only one: unify Ukraine under
the dictatorship of Kiev, with the fig leaf of a decentralized
federal state with broad autonomy for the pro-Russian districts.
This
solution is not welcomed by the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist
masses in many Ukrainian districts nor, in the final analysis, by
Russian imperialism. The low intensity conflict goes on, economic
sanctions on Russia harm more some Western imperialist countries than
Russia itself. Therefore, the NATO summit and the group of 5, of
which Italy is part, moves further aggressive steps on checkerboard
trying to unload the responsibility on Russian imperialism,
especially on the anti-fascist and anti-Western imperialism people.
And
the concept of “hybrid warfare” here comes in handy. As il
Manifesto
wrote on 8 July: “everything can be considered hybrid, any incident
of public disorder is likely to be ascribed to interference from
outside.” And the whole situation in Ukraine is every day at risk
of explosion.
However,
the expansion of NATO, which has its center in Ukraine, now aims to
reach all the countries. But everyone knows that the Euro-Atlantic an
integration of the entire arc surrounding Russia – for instance
Georgia – is indeed war. For this reason, Germany and France put
constraints, because a war now would mean surrender with hands and
feet tied before the interests of US imperialism and its military and
nuclear deterrence which makes US the only hegemonic superpower.
It
is good to say that the deployment of troops and bases in countries
bordering Russia is much more than an expansion. It is the creation
of a missile defense system that resembles the projects of "star
wars" of previous US administrations, where the "stars"
are not in heaven but on the borderland.
Another
aspect of the issue to which we should pay attention is the cost of
this military offensive. US put on the table several billions of
dollars, not only as a structural boost for the US military
industrial system that, beyond any kind of Presidency, is the heart
of the imperialist domination, but also to openly blackmail and force
all European powers to pay the cost of this new phase of the global
strategy.
The
defense ministers of NATO countries, have pledged to increase by more
than three billion dollars the military expenditure in 2016 and to
continue increasing in the following years. On this, the post Brexit
UK can claim again the role of top of the class and skirt the US
pressure on Germany, France and Italy, which without any
parliamentary and electoral check have already said yes to the
request.
It is
clear, therefore, that a tie between the major war industries and
high military hierarchy within NATO is being created, beyond the
national dimension of individual states. This means that any
government in the NATO countries meets the general interests of
imperialism, that constitute a constraint and define their nature,
and on this NATO is even more influential that the ECB, that deals
with “accounting”, compared to what it is production and
geo-strategic structure.
In this
sense, the exit from NATO is clearly a goal of the revolutionary
struggle in each imperialist country and has many other meanings,
compared to the exit from UE – a ridiculous and rightist slogan
when it does not concern minor capitalist countries (it is the case
of Greece) crushed by the dictates of the various European
imperialists in coalition.
But the
exit from NATO is a point of the program of a complete revolution,
not just an empty slogan, good for election campaigns or for
traditional marches and signatures-collections against the war, that
never put really into question imperialism, neither NATO or the
internal structure of the imperialist countries.
East
European countries
Coming
back to the NATO Summit decisions, we must consider that they
accomplish another process of change in the international structure,
the complete reactionary transformation of East European countries,
all of which are now dominated not only by a savage capitalism
subservient to US and European imperialism, but also by facist-Nazi
dictatorships that make them the spearhead of the process
fascistization of the whole Europe and the front-line troops in the
inter-imperialist conflicts.
What
happened long time ago in Poland, Hungary and progressively in all
other countries of Eastern Europe and the Balkans has become clear at
the eyes of the world with the barbarity against immigrants,
particularly in Hungary, and with the internal legislation by
ferocious Nazis in power, who are suppressing with anti-Communist and
anti-democratic laws any kind of right for the workers and the masses
of these countries and put them at direct service of the interests of
imperialists and the ravenous domestic bourgeoisie.
The
chief of the defense in Poland is Macerewicz Antoni, representative
of the nazi ultra right of Poland, who took as his first task to
purge the Polish Armed Forces of each officer who had started his
career before '91, considered tout court guilty of suspected
nostalgia for the old communist regime.
There
is resistance within the military hierarchies, albeit for reasons
such as: “distortion of careers and command structures”, “Witch
hunts and McCarthyism climate, instead of the principle of
professionalism.” It is clear that a defense minister of this kind,
as a general said: “supported by the nationalist Ukraine and
influenced by bloodthirsty extremists, is dangerous for Poland and
exacerbates the hysteria of the Russian-speaking minority”.
A
minister of this kind welcomes the deployment of large forces,
including US, UK and Canadian troops, on Polish soil and is suitable
to unleash any kind of warlike provocation at the service of the
plans of his real masters, who are, again, US imperialism and NATO
hierarchies.
The
same process goes ahead in the other countries of Eastern Europe, and
there also the generals are those who lead the march, as Pavel in the
Czech Republic, who has been in office as chairman of the Military
Committee of NATO for one year, and openly says that Russia, not
terrorism, is the real danger and supports the maneuvers NATO at
Russia borders, and this way is a candidate for the next presidential
elections in the Czech Republic.
In
Hungary the cement of the Nazi government is the war on immigrants
and good business relations with Putin's Russia, along with to a
matter of strategic relevance such as energy – there is a nuclear
treaty signed by Budapest and Moscow in 2014, which includes the
construction of two new reactors by Russia in Paks. Consequently,
Orban appears less frantic in the military alignment against Russia
and, as we have said, he rides mainly the tiger of "anti-immigration"
hysteria. Here we witness the fact, very strange in appearance, that
the opposition center-left forces denounce the dictatorial nature of
Orban but, use against him the rightist argument to be “lukewarm”
in the contrast to Russia. Consequently, those center-left forces are
the most active in urging Hungary to align the US-NATO-led anti
Russia offensive.
Also
in Poland, the Committee in Defence of Democracy, protesting against
the “orbanization”of the country, points out: “we are still in
favor of decisions taken by the Atlantic Alliance to increase the
security of our country.”
Throughout
the Easter Europe the path is identical. Gradually, the reactionary
regimes that often were tinged with nationalism, do the contrary,
selling off the country to the US-NATO interests. For instance, it
should create a scandal the participation of Montenegro as observer
at the Warsaw Summit. Mirko Knezevic, the president of Montenegro, is
known for often showing the photos of his son, a victim of NATO
bombingin ’99, but now runs to seek the accession into NATO.
The
nature of the Montenegrin economy would have no need for this
military shift. It is the NATO, however, that with the accession of
Montenegro aims to seize two objectives: on the one hand, militarily,
after the accessions of Croatia and Albania, it completes the line of
eastern Adriatic and, on the other hand, detaches another country
from the Russian orbit. The ruling forces in Montenegro, in turn,
rely on NATO to have a cover, not so much concerning Russia, but more
to boost a domestic leadership based on the ties with the great
Italian, Russian, Balkan organized crime.
We
see not only the internal use of the presence of NATO by the
reactionary regimes in Eastern Europe, but also the battle between
them, to get more from NATO, to be recognized as an integral part of
its plans, at the expense of other Eastern European countries. This
leads, for example, the president of Romania, who already allows the
presence of strategic bases and troops, to demand to be organically
inserted into a naval and air cooperation model with NATO forces; as
well as the president of Poland boasts that the Polish aircraft
carrier takes part in the "Air Policing" to patrol the
Bulgarian and Turkish airspace; while, again under the NATO control,
Bucharest and Warsaw are working for a bilateral cooperation treaty
in the military. So, a wild race to better serve imperialism.
Poland
itself is seeking to carry out a task of mediation to enhance the
cooperation between Belarus and NATO. It is in this context that
Poland urges that the troops deployment decided by the Summit takes
place in the Suwalki district, right on the border between Belarus
and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which, as il
Manifesto rightly
wrote, it is likely to become the most militarized region in the area
and the real potential of explosion.
This
review allows us to conclude that these new capitalist dictatorships
are essentially at the service of imperialism, from which they depend
in all respects. And then they give mainly imperialism the task of
defending their own interests, apparently against Russian imperialism
but in fact and especially their internal interests against any
possible development of the proletarian and mass struggle.
These
countries have always been described as heirs of the Russian
domination and the ruling parties and classes as the long arm of
that, today they have become props of the interests of US and EU
imperialist masters and true branches of their power within. This
explains more than anything else the blatant pressure to fill their
countries with money, weapons, military bases of imperialism, to get
an “insurance policy” for their internal power. In this, the
issue of migrants is thoroughly the combination of two factors: the
response on behalf of imperialism to the migratory wave, a kind of
dirty work on behalf of the imperialist bourgeoisie, and the domestic
Nazification to divert the exploited and oppressed masses toward an
anti-migrants block.
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